This policy brief points out that all reduced class size initiatives are not alike, and must be carefully crafted to assure that schools and students reap the maximum benefits from smaller classes.

100% of 3rd graders at Eastside Charter School, a school with 88% of its students coming from low income families, passed the latest round of state mandated standardized performance tests. Eastside has only 16 third-graders and 126 students altogether in its preschool-through-fifth grade classes. But that's the point.